Psychic detective, so you have a hundred ways to escape

Ellen 2021-12-27 08:01:12

The first half of the film is slightly procrastinated, the climax is short, the ending is hurried, and there are many flashbacks, but it is a bit messy. The subject of having the superpower to meet the future is not novel, and it does not qualify as a high-IQ movie. In general, the overall section is okay, grabbing you when you are ready to doze off, some of the perspectives of the clips are used very well, and the virtual and reality intersect to promote the development of the plot.
In serial homicides, the commonality of the victims is that they are "terminally ill and will die soon." Old psychic John may have sensed his own destiny from the beginning, so when his friend Joe asked him for help, he refused and said that he was not interested. During the autopsy of the little boy, he ignored the opposition and forcibly withdrew because he was unwilling to accept this. Destiny-to be the next "murderer".
Euthanasia is a very controversial practice. For the patient, the desire to survive is an instinct, but for the patient’s family and friends, it is unbearable to see them in such pain. At the beginning, John also enlightened FBI agents Joe and Catherine, thinking that it was not wrong for the murderer to end the lives of these people, but Catherine insisted that "this is murder!" Later, John also decided that it was immoral for the murderer to kill. He and the murderer later spoke out during the confrontation. Don't think that you can be psychic, just treat yourself as a god and decide the life and death of others! But in the end, John's three views were "corrected". He began to accept that the "euthanasia" of the patients was a relief for themselves and their family members. John personally euthanized his leukemia daughter.
This also explains why the murderer had to throw himself into the trap. Obviously, the murderer's psychic ability was stronger than that of John. Why did he throw himself into the trap to send him to death, and he must die in John's hands. Maybe people with psychic abilities can see more thoroughly than ordinary people, because they can see things that ordinary people can’t see, just like John, who said clearly "Don’t treat yourself as God", but when you really see When you get the future of others, you will still automatically stand in the perspective of God. So John knew it was a trap set by the murderer, so he went in step by step. And everything is just as the murderer expected, John step by step transformed into the next "murderer", perhaps in their eyes, they are "redeemers" rather than "perpetrators." I guess the murderer himself has an incurable disease and will die soon, so he needs someone to continue his mission, and John is the best choice.
There are a hundred ways to escape from the psychic detective, but they cannot escape the shackles of the soul. John's choice was probably also dictated by fate.

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  • [first lines]

    Joe Merriwether: [sniffing the cigar] Cuban.

    Agent Katherine Cowles: What's the word, Sawyer?

    Agent Sawyer: Looks like a match.

    Agent Katherine Cowles: [holds up three fingers to Merriwether]

    Agent Sawyer: [on the phone] Yeah, it's Joe. We've got a series. Same M O, same signature, no DNA. Not one goddamn shred.

  • Agent Katherine Cowles: Dr. Clancy, before we go upstairs, with all due respect, I don't hold an ounce of confidence in the paranormal in general. I think it's a sham. I hope that's okay.

    John Clancy: No problem at all. I feel the same about shrinks. After only one thing, your money. Give them your little finger, they'll take your whole hand.

    Agent Katherine Cowles: Whoever said that has obviously never met a good one.

    John Clancy: It was Sigmund Freud.